tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post5952216053069332360..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: Mr. Baldrey.....You Had An Option, Sir.RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-81250119938854201142011-09-02T12:52:48.576-07:002011-09-02T12:52:48.576-07:00Thanks NVG!
Whole Lotta zingers in there for futu...Thanks NVG!<br /><br />Whole Lotta zingers in there for future reference.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-42751713806864090132011-09-02T10:20:01.729-07:002011-09-02T10:20:01.729-07:00ahh, why I remember....... 30 years ago, a Royal C...ahh, why I remember....... 30 years ago, a Royal Commission sought to have <b>an unshackled press as a legacy for our children.</b><br /><br />Page 11<br /><br />"FREEDOM of the press is not a property right of owners . It is a right of the people. It is part of their right to free expression, inseparable from their right to inform themselves . The Commission believes that the key problem posed by its terms of reference is the limitation of those rights by undue concentration of ownership and control of the Canadian daily newspaper industry. As Justice Hugo Black wrote in a 1945 judgment of the United States Supreme Court, "Freedom of the press from governmental interference . . . does not sanction repression of that freedom by private interests ." <br /><br />Page 9 Royal Commission on Newspapers (Canada) 1981<br />Chapters 1 - 4<br /><br />"...we summarize our findings about the newspaper industry in Canada and discuss ideas that have been put forward to us as to what should be done; some are adopted with enthusiasm . We discuss what we believe the Parliament of Canada can do to create the climate in which newspapers can truly fulfill the public trust that our society has vested in them . In our last chapter we set out those recommendations in some detail .<br />We took for our motto in this inquiry the famous words of one early Canadian newspaperman, Joseph Howe . "<b>I conjure you,</b>" he said to the jury asked to convict him of contempt for publishing information he thought the public should have, "<b>to leave an unshackled press as a legacy to your children.</b>"<br /><br />The shackles that bind the press in Canada today are a different sort from those that Howe exhorted against . They are shackles nonetheless . We present in this Report our recommendations for freeing the press in Canada."<br /><br /><br /><br />Source: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pco-bcp/commissions-ef/kent1981-eng/kent1981-eng.htmNorth Van's Grumpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17571810726275726952noreply@blogger.com